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• STS -39 (1991)
• STS -49 (1992 )
• STS -65 ( 1994)

Richard James Slash ( born September 21, 1955 in Jamestown, State of North Dakota, USA ) is a former American astronaut.

Training

Blow received in 1977 a Bachelor in Mathematics and Physics from Northwest Nazarene College in 1978 and a master's degree in aeronautics and aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado.

Astronauts activity

In 1979, a blow to NASA, where he worked initially in the development and planning of tasks for the astronauts. He worked in the control center on the team, which was responsible for the launch of the first Space Shuttle mission STS -1 and supported numerous missions following. After an unsuccessful bid for the tenth astronaut group blow was selected by NASA as a member of the eleventh group in June 1985.

STS -39

On April 28, 1991 when chop as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery into space. STS -39 was the first non-secret shuttle mission of the U.S. Department of Defense. For this mission, only the MPEC experiment was classified as secret. Furthermore, were studied southern auroras, conducted various experiments and exposed several small satellites.

STS -49

On 7th May 1992 flew chop as a mission specialist on the maiden flight of the space shuttle Endeavour for the second time into space. The aim of this mission was the two years previously launched communications satellite Intelsat VI -F3 to recover for a repair. Only with the third spacewalk (EVA ) finally, the satellite could be captured by hand. Then Intelsat received a new apogee, so that he could achieve an intended geostationary orbit. In another EVA structures and tools were tested.

STS -65

For the STS- 65 bat flew as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia on 8 July 1994 for the third time in the space. Around ninety experiments in the fields of biology and materials science were during the 15-day Spacelab flight on the program. On July 23, the Columbia landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

According to the NASA

1995 retired from bat from NASA and was then employed by Allied Signal Technical Services Corporation in Greenbelt, Maryland. He is currently vice president of civil programs at Lockheed Martin Mission Services.

Richard Slash is married and has two children.